Do you make your own choices or have circumstances beyond your control already decided your destiny? For thousands of years, this very question has intrigued and perplexed philosophers, scientists, and everyone who thinks deliberately about how they choose to live and act. The answer to this age-old riddle is universally relevant to our lives. The implications of our views on it can affect everything from small choices we make every day to our perspective on criminal justice and capital punishment. From the Stoics to Boethius, from Kant to Hume, from Sartre to contemporary philosophers, great minds have puzzled over this debate for centuries.Lectures: 00. Professor Introduction 01. Free Will and Determinism-The Basic Debate 02. Fate and Karma 03. Divine Predestination and Foreknowledge 04. Causal Determinism 05. Ancient and Medieval Indeterminism 06. Agent Causation 07. Ancient and Classical Compatibilism 08. Contemporary Compatibilism 09. Hard Determinism 10. Free Will Impossibilism 11. The Belief in Free Will 12. Physics and Free Will 13. Neuroscience and Determinism 14. Neuroscience of Conscious Choice 15. Psychology and Free Will 16. Deontological Ethics and Free Will 17. Utilitarianism and Free Will 18. Responsibility and the Emotions 19. Pessimism and Illusionism 20. Optimism and Skepticism 21. The Ethics of Punishment 22. The Power of Punishment 23. Moral Responsibility and Psychopathy 24. The Future of Responsibility 25. End Credits